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Monday, August 5, 2013

Spicastic Souvenirs from Liminka!

No I'm still not done with the Liminka posts! I'll just have to show you the stuff I bought there. Although I didn't have any intention to do shopping while I was there, it just happened~

Studio Killers' album was the soundtrack of my stay in Liminka. I somehow stumbled across their music and fell in love immediately. I remember that I saw the music video to Ode to the Bouncer last December and wrote it down somewhere but then I forgot the whole thing until now!

Luckily a local CD-store in Oulu had just *one* copy of their first album (which was released this June!). Yes, I'm one of those - maybe a bit old-fashioned people who like to buy their music on discs and get something you can hold in your hand, not just some bits on a memorystick.
I really love the songs "Jenny" and "Eros and Apollo".

Heh, well I didn't buy that house, only the old photographs I found from the Vintage Store that was in business inside the house. ;-D

Much to my surprise, the opportunities for shopping in Liminka had increased since my last visit a couple of years ago. When traveling, I recommend taking a peek inside vintage shops where you can find un-expected and out-of-the-ordinary souvenirs.

I love old photographs! I don't know yet what I'll do with these, maybe I'll use them in some art project, or just frame them to decorate my walls. Much to my disappointment, the shopkeeper had punched holes on some of the photos to make them into bookmarks. And in the process ruined them.

I still bought them since some of the punctured photos had friendly-looking old gentlemen with beards pictured in them. Most people only look for pretty women with frilly epoque dresses in old photos, but I go for the bearded men. I'm strange that way. ;-)
I somehow feel a bit bad for the old gentlemen in the photos since not many modern people appreciate the beard- and moustache styling of the 1800's and early 1900's.

My sister had a good suggestion for how I could use these "bookmarks" - I could hand them in the Christmas tree by the ribbon attached to them and make christmas decorations out of them. Not a bad idea. Not bad at all.
After all, baubles are so mainstream.

Monster High Venus McFlytrap, music festival or Very Important Monster version. I actually didn't mean to start collecting MH dolls, but *sigh*. They are so tempting!

It's become a rather habit of mine to buy an MH doll whenever I go on a trip of somekind. I bought Robecca Steam last winter when visiting a friend, and Snow Bite Draculaura and Little Red Riding Wolf Clawdeen from Germany and now Venus while visiting Oulu.

I haven't seen this version of Venus before, I rather like styling on her. Especially that neon-green belt~

((I nthat pose inside the box she looks like she's been tied to an antique machine meant for torturing people.. And still she's all smiles..))

After some researching on the net I identified the orange one as Tiny Yarn Hair-series' Sparkleworks. The blue pony is probably Shenanigans because of her hot-air balloon cutiemark.
I'm more into G1 and the new G4 ponies, so I'm not very good at identifying anypony from the G3 era (well apart from the obvious Pinkie Pie, Scootaloo etc.), but I still love G3 ponies as well. Especially the ponies outside the Core 7 of G3.

A Fakey G4 pony!
Seems like she's been made with the same mold as the original G4 ponies. A yellow and hot pink Twilight Sparkle fake. ~.~ I haven't seen a fakey this close to the original of G4 ponies before!

Two LEGO Bionicle figures...
I haven't collected Bionicles before but I got interested in them via Rana's blog
(( http://muovimaailma.blogspot.fi/2013/06/palikkatason-kliimaksi.html only in Finnish...)).
And these guys were in good condition, didn't seem to be missing any parts and such, so I had to take them home with me. :-)
I have no idea of the characters or names of these guys, let alone if they are worth anything (ie. if they are rare models or not), but I liked them so yeah.

I saved the best for last! x3
Namely Marshmallow, my Pink Fluffy Unicorn. I promised myself before entering the second hand shop that I wouldn't be buying any plush animals, but alas, I ended up buying the G3 MLPs and... Marsmallow!

He's a Russ Luky-plush and he was sitting at a shelf with lots of horse-stuff around him.
It makes me a little bit sad how many ex-horse-lover girls sell all their stuff when they have "outgrown" the hobby. Just like people who sell all of their childhood books, music CDs and cassettes at second hand stores and flea markets. It's like they are selling away their childhood.

I just couldn't resist Marshmallow's charms. He was sitting all alone, abandoned and forgotten, looking too sad (and he was clean and wasn't missing any fur, which is unusual for a plushy in Finnish second hand shops.). And I was strongly influenced by this;